Drupal modules for a single-user blog

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I’ve been asked a few times what modules I’m running on the drupal installs I’m tending.

Site #1 is domesticat.net, a single-user blog running under 6.x, currently 6.8, with comments enabled.  Site #2 is a firewalled company intranet focused heavily around the concept of using organic groups, has since been written up here.

Modules that are installed but unused because I haven’t configured them yet are bolded. Modules that I will turn back on the moment I’ve got a bugfix are italicized.

I’m undoubtedly missing some fantastic ones, but these are the ones I know about and rely on.

Access and access control

content_access - permits the restriction of access to content based on content type or user role
persistent_login - provides a ‘remember me’ cookie
tokenauth - provides a unique per-user token, almost always used to provide authenticated RSS feeds that give feedreaders access to content typically only accessible to logged-in users

Anti-spam

mollom - all-in-one anti-spam + intelligent captcha module
spamspan - obfuscates email addresses to prevent spambot harvesting

Comments

ajax_comments - uses AJAX to provide a smoother comment submission process
wp_comments - restructures the comment form into a tighter layout more reminiscent of wordpress

Development-related

coder - helps convert modules from one major version of drupal to another
deadwood - helps convert modules from one major version of drupal to another
drush - command line shell for drupal

Feeds, notifications, and syndication

atom - provides an Atom feed
comment_subscribe - allows users to receive emailed notifications of new comments or replies  (deprecated)
comment_notify - allows users to receive emailed notifications of new comments or replies
commentrss - provides an RSS feed of comments
ljxp - cross-posts to livejournal
mass_contact - sends mass emails to groups of users
service_links - provides links to social sites such as reddit and delicious
pingfm - contacts ping.fm when new content is added

Metadata for my content

onthisday - shows content created on this day in years past.
similarterms - shows list of entries whose terms are similar, and thus probably related
tagadelic - generates a tag cloud

Mobile version of the site

browscap - detects and logs what browsers access your site
mobile_theme - autodetects and presents a slimmed-down theme for mobile browsers

URL structure and navigation

custom_breadcrumbs - defines custom breadcrumb trails for content types
custom_pagers - provides context-sensitive next/previous entries
pathauto - defines custom URL patterns per content type
token - gives access to custom tokens, like creation date, author, title, etc. for many uses, including defining custom URL patterns

User-friendly options

ed_readmore - customizes the "read more" link in posts
fckeditor - WYSIWYG editor
flickr - provides ability to easily embed images from flickr
gravatar - includes gravatars in comments
smileys - automatically turns text smileys into images
thickbox - pretty CSS-based image display code

Utter basics

advanced_help - used to provide extra help in Views
mailhandler - allows post-by-email
sections - allows you to define different themes for certain pages or sections of your site
views - allows you to sort, filter, remix, and present whatever content you want in whatever layout and format you want. (Obscenely powerful.)
xmlsitemap - generates an XML site map for search crawlers.
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